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[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] travishamockery:
I noticed the same thing today streaming to my kenwood unit. My droid X had flawless sound, this was exactly as you described. Any fix yet?

One thing I noticed, my X had a check box for an enhanced bluetooth audio quality....not sure if that made a difference or not.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] capflya:
Been using the phone in my car with my alpine deck without issue. I have the add-on bluetooth from alpine and it works really good with the phone. Randomly the music cuts out for a second but my old blackberry did the same thing, and so did my iPod Touch (2nd gen).

Shutting off the wifi on the phone isn't a bad idea... might give that a shot to see if that helps your issue? My blackberry would randomly distort the music. I would close pandora and do a battery pull then it would usually be back to "normal".
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] weiln12:
I have the same issue with my Clarion deck. Of course...I've somewhat convinced myself the speakers are a bit blown...but it's worse on BT than wired. From what I've been able to read there is a "bitpool" setting which controls the quality, and by default it's pretty low in the 30's, while it can go up to the 50's and the sound quality is noticeably different. CM fixes this from what I've read, but that's all. Apparently Blackberry has a higher setting by default, and each manufacturer can set their's different.

I'm hoping that a combination of new speakers and CM7 will remedy my issue.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DigitalSileR:
interesting I've got a pioneer premier DEH-P710BT

and it sounds amazing

maybe look for a firmware update for your receiver?
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] travishamockery:
mine is updated to their most current firmware. I'm more inclined to think it's a bad bluetooth stack like weiln12 mentions above. gonna try it out with my friends thunderbolt tonight and see if it is the same.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kkozma:
I also have a clarion deck and find the bluetooth audio quality to be horrific. I find it hard to believe that it's the head unit at fault since my old Droid1 sounded perfectly fine.

Is anyone aware of any roms or kernels that have a higher bitpool setting?
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] travishamockery:
I haven't found any yet. I'm hoping when we see CM7 things will be better.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Boss428man:
Sounds absolutely perfect on my Ford Sync audio.. I have a Scoche Bluetooth in my other car that I can test.. I haven't tested as it is currently off the road. I will let you know. With my Scoche and past phones I noticed the bluetooth is a little lower quality then the audio jack but not much and only with that unit.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BigMcGuire:
I have a Motorola S305 headset that works very well with music (slacker, amazon mp3, and pandora). However, my bluetooth Samsung WEP570 sounds so bad, crackled, and quiet (even on max volume) that I don't even use it anymore for calls.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WildH:
How is your call quality on the Ford sync? Specifically the incoming call volume.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] funkybside:
I'm streaming Pandora to a MOTO roadster, then over fm to stereo, sounds great, no loss on the bass end either.

Have you tried another bt device?
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] travishamockery:
I personally have tried a few and have problems. However, I've tried multiple thunderbolts and they all sound the same on my kenwood. I've definitely read about HTC using less than stellar bluetooth on their units before, so I am assuming that is the case here. I guess it just works ok with some and not with others. Testing my X on the same kenwood unit I have and it's crystal clear with no distortion.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kkozma:
This has absolutely nothing to do with the quality of the bluetooth hardware itself. Bluetooth is a wireless digital transfer protocol, nothing more nothing less. It does nothing to the audio quality during it's transmission. Where we have a problem is in the amount of "space" (the bitpool) provided to send the information from your device to the receiver. The lower the bitpool, the less space is available for your music and the more it must be compressed. Motorola may infact provide a higher bitpool setting in their devices than HTC which would account for them sounding better and I also know that the X has a "Use High Quality Bluetooth Audio" setting, which I'm sure enables a higher bitpool.

The type of music you listen to also has a significant effect on how this sounds. If you listen to something that is sonicly simple (ie hip hop, pop, etc etc) it doesn't need as much "space" to sound good. However, when you switch over to music that has more going on like heavy metal, it needs more room.

I can give you a perfect example. I was listening to Rage Against the Machine today. In the slower parts of the songs, it sounded GREAT, but then when it picked up and the song got more involved there was a huge loss of fidelity and it didn't sound very good at all.

Now, for those of you who are happy with how yours sounds, that's awesome, but for those of us who are not, we simply just want to know of a way to adjust the bitpool setting or find a developer who is willing to code it in to their kernel/rom which I believe is what needs to happen.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] travishamockery:
Amen. You just summed up the situation perfectly. I forgot the X has the check box for high quality BT audio, that could very well be what makes it better. I'm going to check it out tonight w/o that checked and see how it fares. Not sure why HTC wouldn't have an option like that.

Just found a post here that seems very related. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=708685

Apparently CM uses an open source BT stack that has good settings to use the higher bitpool but HTC chooses the Broadcom stack that utilizes a much lower bitpool as stated above. They don't seem to have a way to raise this value though....
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SuperFly03:
i've had no issues. I use Pandora w/ high quality audio over BT into my Ford Sync system.

Sounds great. Somewhere between satellite radio and MP3 player SNR ratio.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigunzec:
Ironically my streaming audio is fine from mp3's i put on the SD, but IN CALL volume is much lower then i am used too, i have a Jabra BT530, its weird because the media volume is fine, but as soon as a call comes in i have to switch to the handset to hear the other end well.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] funkybside:
I had that problem but it turned out to just be a volume issue, BT vol was set way higher...

Again, Streaming pandora to Motorola Roaster, which in turn broadcasts FM to my car stereo. It sounds fantastic.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oldbushie:
Ah, so I must be running into that bitpool issue as well. I've been posting in a couple different forums with my attempts to narrow down my issue, but I'll sum up here:

Using Thundersense 1.5, which comes with Imoseyon's 2.5.1 kernel, I've been having issues with audio cutting out every 2-3 minutes and fading back in. It happens very quickly each time but with alarming regularity. I tried different governors on that kernel as well as different clock speeds, and it seems like the lower (stock) clock speed causes the issue to become even more frequent. Re-pairing, turning off all other services, rebooting, etc have had no effect on when the audio cuts out. I have an Alpine KCE-400BT module in the car.

I plan on trying out CM7 when the official stable release is out for the Thunderbolt, hopefully the better bitpool management will help.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kpfury:
How do I stream music via Bluetooth? I've paired my phone to my 2011 ML350 fine for calls, but when I play music on my TBolt via PlayerPro app (AO5PTH3ORY Rom), it doesn't stream to my car's speakers. I've tried switching the audio input in the car to AUX, Media Interface, etc., no go...

Is there some setting I need to adjust on the phone itself, or is my car just not compatible? Thanks~
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yareally:
Did you try looking through your car manual?
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mike.s:
Does your phone say it's connected for both "Phone Audio," and "Media Audio?" It has to connect using a Bluetooth A2DP profile for music to play.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ThisIsCrazy:
Does anyone know of a way to add the MAP (message access protocol) to the bluetooth profiles?
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrkite38:
Does the android sdk support the profile?
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oldbushie:
I finally took the plunge into CyanogenMod 7 because I heard it's very stable for the Thunderbolt now. No more Bluetooth issues!
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] Nikolai2.1:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=801928

^There! This guy took root themes and converted them to apks for non root users.

Anyone know if the 4g icon will stay?
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] smstutler:
Im using the Black N Bold apk. Dont know about 4g since I dont have it in my area.
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] Nikolai2.1:
lol i get my phone tomorrow so im trying to get on top of things :D

thanks for the response :)
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] smstutler:
np. Just tried porting a framework file also but the data/signal bar didnt work out right. Renamed images i am thinking.
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] elemerica:
The Safari HD one worked fine - 4G icon as well.
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] emagana02:
Yes, they all seem to work and 4 icons as well
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] coolingout:
I'm using Revolution and it works fine. Even the 4G icon does. I flashed a few before deciding on it so I know a few other work too.
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] ryanstfl:
Works very nicely.
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] platodd:
I've tried several and they work great.
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] g0ldt00thgr1n:
All of them work. As in, they just change the skin just like your stock skins.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] craigmack:
Has anyone been able to get DSP Manager working on the Thunderbolt? If so please share with the everyone. :)
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] superchilpil:
It's in chingy's rom :)
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drozek:
Can anyone post a apk or a zip file we can flash?
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ska.t73:
It doesn't actually work though.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sweeny Russ:
Has anyone tried it with the gingerbread player instead of the sense player?
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daviesken:
anyone tried getting this to work for bamf or tried to get an apk or zip
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] B3L13V3:
It's in synergy and it works
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stetsonaw:
It also works in both CM7 and OMFGB.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djkeller3:
It seems to work in all AOSP ROMs, but I've never seen it in any Sense ROM. I don't know why. However... if you're running BAMF 2.1 or higher, you can use Equalizer instead. Sometimes I like it better than DSP Manager, sometimes I don't. Depends on what I'm listening to.

If you're running AOSP, like CM7, you can use either DSP Manager OR Equalizer. Kinda nice using them interchangeably to get different results in the same ROM.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mustang302LX:
DSPManager is awesome on CM7! I can hear my phone from downstairs haha.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrmarshall428:
What settings do u use on dsp? Like put all up to top or something else?
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mustang302LX:
For phone speaker I have them set to 4.0 all the way across. Plenty loud!
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arash64a:
Hi masters

I'm using of Android Revolution HD 3.2 and i want to add

Data,bluetooth,gps,... on/off ability on my notification bar.

can any1 help me?

tnx
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hawks556:
Read about powernotification mod in the second post of the revolution hd thread.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brewsbro:
Anyone with a airave and running the EC05 modem having problems? I use to have great signal in my home with the airave on EB13 modem. Now, on EC05, its hit or miss. I can be 5 feet from the airave and have zero, or one bar. then, sometimes the signal is fine. Data connection isn't the same as it was also(speed has never been high of coarse, but at least it was consistent). Away from the house, signal and data have no issues.

I have un, and replugged airave to no help.

thanks
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] orb360:
I should be getting my airave soon... I'll let you know

If it causes me issues at least I'll know to downgrade to EB13 ^_^

Thanks for the heads up!
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MikeEx:
Did you try dialing *99 and hitting send? you should get a repeating voice that says you are now on airave.

I think sprint's network is just unstable ATM and it could effect airaves as well as PRL updates.

I doubt the last two modems (eb13 & ec05) are to blame.

Have you tested with other phones?

I don't have my airave hooked up, but I've run speed test with two epics and an LG optimus S over 3g (full bar area) and the results are the same. (low to sub 100's and occasionally normal 3g speeds)

Edit: Tested the airave. Full signal, low 100Kb's.

An EVO bud of mine said the network is acting up in his area as well.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] orb360:
Well I've had my airave for a week now but sprint won't activate it... They say that the original airave is incompatible with the Epic 4g and I need to upgrade it to a airave 2... Whatever... Talking to my rep to see what's gonna happen, but it might be a while...

Meanwhile according to sprint I'm in the "excellent" coverage for 4g, 3g, and voice... Doesn't stop my phone from getting -101db 3g and non-existent mythical 4g... Have to try 3-4 times to get a call out... Never get a call in, always goes straight to voice mail... And texts delayed 3-4 hours...

:(
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DangerZone1223:
I've had the most current Airave for over 4 months now. I had so many problems with DK28's modem, but it's been working like a champ under EB13 and EC05. There's 2 gripes I've had with the Airave, though:

1. The IP address that it's pulling for internet services is located 90 miles north of where I'm physically at. Sprint said that that's the area they're pulling bandwidth for me and doesn't affect 911 services. After calling about 5 times about this, they finally patched me to the highest level tech manager that explained all of this to me. He said I was one of two people out of thousands to ask about this. It's nothing Sprint nor I can do about it, so I just leave my house to use Google's location services and then it works correctly.

2. The three beeps before making a call is slightly annoying, but I know it's going through the Airave.

Other than that, it works like a champ, I get full bars, good 3G speeds, and I'm very happy with my Sprint service!
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DangerZone1223:
Be mindful that it IS going through your internet service provider. That might be the culprit. Check your cable modem/router/or whatever you have it plugged into or call your ISP to see if there's any outages or problems in your area.

There's no one switch solution to your problem I can think of off the top of my head.
[XPERIA X8 General] blaze2004uk:
ok so heres the deal, ive been using this rom a while and i had it stable as hell and just how i liked it.......i installed root tools v7, and new versions of SU (the elite one) and busybox v1 18...and now tit backup pro cant get root and i keep gettin fc on nearly everything. what could of happened and how can i fix it.....i treid just reinstallin system from xrecovery but still no joy???? please help
[XPERIA X8 General] XperianPro:
Never update busybox because xrec will not work.
[XPERIA X8 General] blaze2004uk:
my xrecovery still works, i managed to flash original system back from 006a rom, but still no joy. what if i flash boot and system??? or am i going to have to replace data too??

Anyone any ideas.....please help
[XPERIA X8 General] oisteink:
backup sms and call-log and reinstall stock rom and go again. Do daily backups of your system as you mess about. that way you can go back to a working copy.
[XPERIA X8 General] alfsamsung:
If you edit the update-scritp in update.zip with the rom in like this:

#format DATA:

format CACHE:

format SYSTEM:

copy_dir PACKAGE:system SYSTEM:

And then install the modified update.zip

then you won't lose your data,but all system files are replaced.if you have superuser in data, remove it first
[XPERIA X8 General] blaze2004uk:
tried every way i can think off, reflashed the whole rom, still didnt work right....ended up flashin back to 2.1 and startin all over again....oh well....we learn from our mistakes
[Xperia Arc General] Vito Andolini Corleone:
Like the title says, the xperia arc is promised to get the Honeycomb

Update, smashing rumours that dual core processors nd other **** is required to run Honeycomb.

Here is the link for more reading.

http://gizbuy.com/2011/01/07/sonys-arc-to-get-honeycomb-update-but-xperia-x10-lineup-to-miss-froyo/
[Xperia Arc General] Ambroos:
At the VIP event they also confirmed that 2.4 will be available very soon after Google releases it!
[Xperia Arc General] Nimche:
After experiencing with X1 and X2 and then X10 and knowing SE's incomplete support of their products, I would like to assume that ARC will come with 2.3 and die on 2.3 and I hope I stay with this assumption without putting any pressure on myself that why my phone doesn't do this or that :D

This is what SE has been promising over and over for every generation of their phones and they fail to deliver, don't believe it then go back and read SE history. This is their repetitions in failure for every device they put together.

But this won't stop me from buying the ARC. :D
[Xperia Arc General] Ambroos:
The new phones are different. Google brings the OS, Qualcomm does almost all drivers, and SE does Timescape, the launcher, and a few smaller apps. Most of the customizations are just some reskins, and Timescape has no real integration with the rest of Android, making it a lot easier to update without causing problems. Sony Ericsson said yesterday in Brussels that they plan to at least keep updating for 1 year after release.

The X10 was different. It was SE's first Android device, and Timescape and Mediascape were heavily integrated with critical parts of Android. They've learned from their mistakes with the X10, the new ones will do much better!
[Xperia Arc General] im_iceman:
I wouldn't exactly agree with that.. SE promised that they would upgrade from 1.6 to 2.1 and they did.. and in doing that they realised that they had made it inordinately difficult for themselves to do so.. They say that they learned a valuable lesson from this.. and that the arc (and it's siblings) are built in a more modular fashion, allowing them to add their overlay UI etc without a massive coding exercise. I tend to believe that assertion.

Whether or not we'll get 2.5 (or what ever comes after 2.4).. I don't know.. but Android has matured significantly from 1.6 to 2.3 and future updates are less likely to be as significant (IMHO).. so perhaps not so big a deal anyway.. ??
[Xperia Arc General] Ambroos:
We will be getting 2.4 (which still is Gingerbread but more optimized), after that 3.1 (Ice Cream) should follow, merging 2.4 and 3.0. As long as we get Ice Cream I'll be happy!
[Xperia Arc General] im_iceman:
couple of points to the OP though.. That article was written in January.. and 3.0 is for tablets.. The next update for phones is 2.4 (Icecream)
[Xperia Arc General] Ambroos:
2.4 will still be Gingerbread, and will mainly contain performance improvements for dualcores, but no major new features.
[Xperia Arc General] Blomkungen:
tbf the most significant update has yet to come

GPU accelerated UI

Bring me that and I don't think I will need much more
[Xperia Arc General] im_iceman:
http://www.zenilshroff.com/google-android-2-4-ice-cream-sandwich-mobile-os-features-specs-overview/

Have a read of this article..
[Xperia Arc General] Ambroos:
That article has no sources, and similar ones have been posted in january too. Sony Ericsson has already got 2.4 running on the Arc, people tried it, and it's not the Gingerbread-Honeycomb merge. 2.4 is still Gingerbread, and if the next release will not be Gingerbread2, we'll be seeing 3.1 next. There will be no more new codenames in the 2.x family.
[Xperia Arc General] MJ_QaT:
Everyday.... day by day...... I get disappointed by XDA member ( not all of them )

can't believe that there are people think that Honeycomb will be released for mobile handsets while Google itself stated it's only Tablet's OS. Yes, many developers have ported the Honeycomb into their HTCs' or Samsungs', but have you really tried it? fonts are un-readable, resolution is not that good and you can't read anything from it. Basically it was ported for testing and to play with for a little while.

2.4 is still Gingerbread as many members before me stated and Sony Ericsson already planning to release it when it's available. Regarding the difference, its main idea was to make dual-core applications run on a single core processor, along with minor changes.

please don't believe everything you read, it's really getting annoying how many come here with rumours just to start a useless thread

Best Regards,
[Xperia Arc General] Vito Andolini Corleone:
Just thought of sharing this, if you don't like it then do us a favour, don't even look into this. Since I saw this on a couple of sites, I thought of sharing it. Even engadget had mentioned such a thing in early Feb I guess.

Yes I know icecream is dubbed as 2.4 which will contain elements from both gb and honeycomb, scheduled to run on non dual core smartphones. I have also seen some arc's testing the 2.4 os

I didn't know that the post was outdated, never the less lets move on, one should not get annoyed with every single thing. There are millions of things out there in this world to do the same. Might sound rude but shouldn't unless you're soft.

Peace \/

Cheers

AdY
[Xperia Arc General] MJ_QaT:
No worries mate, I take criticism with a smile :)

I would love to stay out of those topics, but seeing misleading information really makes me want to share my opinion... Someone has to correct things here...

You mentioned yourself that the articles are back in January, so why sharing an outdated information?
[Xperia Arc General] Vito Andolini Corleone:
I didn't know that they were outdated. When I checked it again , I realised the issue.
[Xperia Arc General] Makenboshi:
well, i'm glad that i'll be taking arc, can't wait till 9th april